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Straight From His Mouth: Is It Really Easier For Men To Find Their Soulmates?

Before I wrap this up, can we have an honest moment here, ladies? Help me help you! Is no man really willing to marry you or is the exact type of man you want not willing? Can we agree that those are two very distinct issues? One thing men learn early on is that every preference we have not only reduces the pool we have to choose from – which is fine – but it also increases our potential mate’s desirability among others. I would only note that this rule applies to women as well, if not more so, considering women’s desired traits in a man seem far more intangible (job, education, money, status, power, respect, etc).

Moving on…

Women often criticize the types of men (or lack thereof) that approach them; yet, they don’t consider the number of men they turn down as a result of this criticism. Women seem to assume that every man they turn down doesn’t care, moves on instantly, and does so by going off to meet another replacement women. This is just not true. Women are not the only ones that don’t enjoy getting turned down and I can assure you there are more than a few men who are still recovering from getting turned down this weekend/month/year reading this very sentence.

While men might have better odds of meeting women simply because they approach more women, women have the added benefit of choosing a man with the best (initial) winning qualities upfront. In other words, although women may have to turn down more men to find the illusive “good man” they want, the man you choose is more likely to be the type of man you want – assuming you know what you want in a man, another post entirely.

In theory, there’s no limit to the number of women a man can choose from. In reality, a man has to approach a woman he can see himself with, hope she reciprocates his desire, and HE HAS TO HOPE HE GUESSED RIGHT. Men can only choose their wife from the pool of women willing to entertain his advances. Clearly not all women will want him and even those women that do may not be the same women he wants to be with forever. As a coping mechanism, many men shoot for the stars (approach/date a lot of women) and hope they hit the moon along the way (one of these women is wife-able). If men only approached the women they wanted to marry, they’d be in for a world of hurt and disappointment.

Frankly, dating for men and women is a lot like drawing a blind hand of poker. You don’t know if you have the best hand unless you fold and get more cards, but at some point you have to assume the hand you have is better than any other hand you could possibly be dealt. Since no one is all-knowing, this is a dating reality that men and women face together and neither one of us is better or worse off. We simply have diverging advantages and disadvantages. In the end, if men entertain whatever they can get and women only entertain what they want, it actually seems like women have the easier time finding a soul mate and men have the easier time finding a date.

As life happens, kids are born, jobs change, and age increases, we panic and assume that something is better than nothing and what do we do? We (sometimes) settle and opine in vain for a “dating hand” we long since gave away or never possessed. Therefore, I don’t think the average man is winning any more than the average woman is losing. The real reason we complain, men and women, is because both sexes are guilty of entertaining people we know in our hearts don’t belong in our lives. Some will continue blindly going back hoping the next draw from the dating pool will somehow be better than what they already have. A few will be right, but many will be wrong. So, is it easier for men to find their soul mate? No, because if we play the hand we’re dealt wrong, we have the same odds of losing. We’ve all seen the cautionary tale of someone a few decades our senior still playing the game, so I’ll ask you a simple question: are they really winning?

What makes dating easier for men? What makes dating easier for women? Is it easier for a man to find a soul mate/wife than a woman?

WisdomIsMisery aka WIM uses his background as an internal auditor to provide objective, yet opinionated, qualitative and quantitative analysis on life, love, and everything in between. As a Scorpio, many women wish death on WIM and some have attempted to hasten its arrival. WIM is not a model, a model citizen, or a role model. See more of WIM on his weekly write-ups for SBM and on Twitter @WisdomIsMisery.

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MrPreston

I find it interesting that so many people feel that a man’s decision to marry a woman is a contingent upon pure beauty and “booty”. As a man that’s getting married in one month,my view point is simple. If woman was created from a man’s rib, I believe that recognizing that missing piece is instantaeous and extends the realm of physical attributes.

Topazhoney

I feel ya on this one, qui8tstorm83! I’ve come to the conclusion that it doesn’t matter if you are a man or a woman, finding a good mate is challenging…period.

RelationshipDNA

I always say men keep it simple. Beyonce got it right. If he likes it, he will put a ring on it, point blank period. When a man knows, he knows. Now, that doesn’t instantly make him relationship ready or marriage material, but men are far less fickle about this stuff than we are.If we learned to believe what they tell us about themselves from the start, we’d save ourselves a lot time, and heartache.

guest

Yea with each other.hehe

Kiyoko Kayo Hisoka

There are billions of people on the planet. There is no such thing as a soulmate.

Twine

Make the distinction btw “queen” & “princess”. A queen assists the king w/rule of the kingdom but utimately, his decision is law;a princess has the benefits of royalty w/o the responsibility. It’s just like saying you’re “grown” just because you are over a certain age, but you still rely on others for your livelihood. Life is tough enough for a man trying to be responsible in a difficult world; why would one choose a woman who adds to that difficulty?

Kiyoko Kayo Hisoka

Life is tough for a man trying to be responsible? What the heck are you talking about?

Nope

Responsibility assumes obligation, and the only woman a man is obligated to is his WIFE, mother, and daughter.

Kiyoko Kayo Hisoka

That doesn’t explain why ‘life is tough for a man trying to be responsible”.

Twine

Its tough when everything you do, every decision you make affects the lives of those for whom you are responsible, mainly your wife & kids. I’m saying, if a man is going to make that choice, it makes it easier to choose if the person he is choosing is more prone to be a help instead of a hindrance.

Veratta Pegram-Floyd

I appreciate receiving a male perspective on this subject, rather than hearing the female speculation that I always do. He hit the nail on the head with these words: “The real reason we complain, men and women, is because both sexes areguilty of entertaining people we know in our hearts don’t belong in ourlives.”

I know that this has been VERY TRUE for me. Once I realized this, I decided to break the cycle and no longer date individuals that I didn’t see any kind of longevity with. I am not expecting marriage out of every relationship, but if I want to break up right after committing to being your girlfriend then we have no business being together.

TeeMa

so funny you say this (“but if I want to break up right after committing…”), I began dating a guy maybe 3 or 4 months ago and JUST 2 days ago called it quits. I (female) knew from the beginning before we even decided that we wanted to date exclusively that I didn’t see any longevity in the equation. so basically, I didn’t have any business dealing with him from the beginning. I am like a guy in many ways. i have to agree with a few of the male perspectives…though I am female, I go into dating & viewing dating like men do. I don’t find one person and then fall in love. I choose to play the field and see whats out there before I take the big leap (marriage).

Adrian Khan (The Soca Warrior)

Probably because women don’t know what they want.They look at those dumb @$$ movies and expect men to really be that gay.Men want a woman who can cook and sex is good.The younger the woman the longer her lis of qualifications.The older,as long as he is breathing.

kierah

Men decide when they want to get married and then they look for the one. Women date, fall in love, and decide they want to be married. In that sense, it’s easier for men because they are more specific in the way they date. They have already figured out within 10 seconds of meeting you if you are “wifey” or wife material. I think their screening process is a little more refined than women’s.

Nope

Most women just want to be married in general, most men want to be married to a specific person when she comes along. And of course those women will take issue if they aren’t specifically the one the man wants to marry.

If it only takes a man 10 seconds to decide a woman is worth marrying I now understand why blacks have a divorce rate of 70%. Other than the fact that most black women aren’t marriage material, black men need to make better choices in the women they date. Dating white women would be a better choice in the long run if these men want to be happy.

Kiyoko Kayo Hisoka

Most Black men aren’t marriage material. Hell, most of them aren’t even worth dating. Black women need to make better choices in the men who they date. Dating a White man would be a better choice in the long run if these women want to be happy and respected and not have to deal with a 30-year-old moocher.

Nope

I guess the mods had an issue with my original reply, but it basically said that outside of niche adult online videos, White men have little interest in Black women, just like Black women aren’t exactly chasing down White men. At best interracial relationships between White men and Black women are outliers,

Kiyoko Kayo Hisoka

Give me a break with your ‘nobody wants a Black woman’ rhetoric.

Kiyoko Kayo Hisoka

Men decide if a woman is marriage material simply based on the way she looks. Men definitely aren’t more refined when it comes to choosing a mate.

JaneDoe

I think so… In my opinion, it doesn’t take much for men to believe they found their soul mate. All a woman needs to do is have a pretty face, a big booty, be able to cook, and cater to them like their mommas do and presto they found the one..

Nope

Men ultimately settle down with someone, what a lot of women need to ask themselves is why isn’t it with YOU.

Also, the same women that think it’s beneath them to “cater” to men are the same ones that claim to be traditional women (albeit only when it’s convenient for them to say that). Can’t have it both ways.

aintthatthetruth

I surely don’t mind catering to a man AT ALL. I want to make my man feel like he’s a king at ALL times, but a man must treat a woman like a queen if he expects to be treated like a king. Not many men are willing to do this. They seem to treat the women who are skanks and hoes with big a$$es like royalty while they’re doing nothing but draining that n*ggas pockets.

Nope

But it’s not like the skanks and hoes are getting married, outside of reality TV which of course is exaggerated by design. The skanks and hoes might be getting initial attention, but they’re not getting treated like royalty nor are they respected or getting married in real life. If a man doesn’t treat a woman like a “queen”, then he just isn’t that into you. Simple as that. In a lot of cases he’s only ‘her man’ inside of her own head.

JaneDoe

Not true… 9/10 when a man leaves his beautiful intelligent wife at home with the kids they mad during the time of their marraige is usually for a younger more finer version of his wife that CATERS to him. MOST men are visual and go by looks first where as women consider other factors when they think about long term.. Assuming that soul mates mean someone you would want to spend the rest of your life with

Nope

“MOST men are visual and go by looks first where as women consider other factors when they think about long term”

I don’t disagree with this, but IMO the emphasis women place about how men are so visual is exaggerated. Looks might get, but won’t keep our attention, especially for longterm (which we do think longterm…. if it’s the right woman for us). There was actually an article on here a couple of weeks ago about how women don’t really know what men find attractive about women, and vice versa.

JaneDoe

You bring up some very good points however men don’t think like that when they are in the actual situation that looks doesn’t sustain a relationship.

Kiyoko Kayo Hisoka

Most women are ‘visual’ too.

Kiyoko Kayo Hisoka

Let go of this whole ‘Black men are kings’ and ‘Black women are queens’ BS! Women catering to men is ONE of the reasons so many of them remain in a perpetual childhood.

UrbanWarrior

@MorningRain:disqus … I think you are confusing Catering to a man and babying him during his formative years as a youth. IMO one of the reason why some men are , as you put it, in perpetual youth is because they weren’t raised to understand what is expected of them as a man. It sometimes comes back to having a good strong male role model. When a man know whats is expected and does what is expected, isn’t it only fair that the woman play her part cater (however you choose to define and negotiate that word in the relationship) to him. If you think that there aren’t women out there who are willing to do what is necessary to keep a good man even if it goes against the grain of modern sensibilities, then you are fooling yourself. please keep in mind that when I think of being catered to, I’m thinking of all the simple little things that lets a man know he’s wanted, loved and above all else NEEDED.

get real

Right, brains, good personality, sense of humor doesn’t come into the equation. Just give me a dumb big booty gurl and hey I’ve hit the lottery. (Sarcasm off)…. Kierah your right men do know pretty quickly if your the one.

Nope

I think a lot of women confuse how he views The One as compared how he views a ‘dumb big booty girl’ or other women. Sometimes you’re The One for him, sometimes your just a piece of @ss, and sometimes you’re NEITHER to him. Women tend to think of it as an ‘either or’ answer, when a lot of times for a man it’s a ‘correct answer not given’ answer.